Abstract Research purpose. There is a growing trend of society believing more and in public broadcasting media because they can objectively explain reflect on what happening the world Latvia. As pandemic escalates, people are increasingly listening to professional journalists experts saying. The survey organised by National Media Council (neplpadome.lv, 2021) also shows that trust Latvia has be...

The media’s portrayal of women is often sexually objectifying, and greater exposure to objectifying media is associated with higher levels of self-objectification among young women. One reason why media usage may be associated with selfobjectification is because women may be comparing their appearance to others in the media. The present study examined (a) the relationship between the usage of d...

Traditional paper-based longitudinal or cross section panel surveys, used for market research are time and cost consuming and can suffer from contaminating effects like social desirability bias or respondent conditioning. Electronic data capture methods can improve the time and cost efficiency of market research panels. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology allows a seamless and non-...

Purpose – Given the widespread popularity of social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, Googleþ , and LinkedIn, theorizing and understanding the user attitude and usage behavior of social media site is fundamental in developing future understandings and deployment of these new technologies. One approach to such studies on drivers of social media usage behavior would be to revisit the technology a...

Social media are all around us, dominating the virtual landscape and infiltrating our daily lives. Usage of these primarily hedonic systems continues to expand. Past research on technology adoption and usage has prominently investigated utilitarian systems, though other findings have shown that different characteristics impact the usage of hedonic systems. Given the socio-technical nature of so...

This article presents a study on the adoption and usage of new media among a representative sample of Flemish youngsters. Some major findings include the dominant role of computers and Internet in the media behavior of these youngsters, challenging traditional media such as TV and radio. However, the supposed popularity of mobile applications and gaming among youngsters was not universally pres...

The Internet as a mega-collection of smaller communication networks has provided each individual the means to voice their opinion across the world. This capability has enabled a significant number of individuals to be heard by politicians and governments. Functions such as social media, as well as personal publishing (e.g. blogging), have provided a profound ease with which individuals can comm...

This study summarizes prior reviews of new media and Internet research, and the growth of the term Internet in academic publications and online newsgroups. It then uses semantic network analysis to summarize the interests and concepts of an interdisciplinary group of Internet researchers, as represented by session titles and paper titles and abstracts from the 2003 and 2004 Association of Inter...